| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Minecraft Server Software | 7.8 (#10) | 7.1 (#21) |
| Installation | The project documents installing Dragonfly as a Go library or cloning the repository and running main.go. | Steel can be installed from pre-built binaries, Docker, Pelican or Pterodactyl egg configurations, or by compiling from source. |
| Performance goals | The project says it was designed with scalability and simplicity in mind and aims to make server setup and modification easy. | The project targets performance, reliability, and a clean developer experience, using lock-free data structures and efficient concurrency. |
| Support | The project directs users with questions to its Discord community and welcomes issues, pull requests, and feature requests. | The project directs users and contributors to its Discord community and GitHub repository. |